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Brighten your bathroom or kitchen with these beautiful Heart Cat Hand Towels, or give them as a Valentine’s gift! Made from 100% cotton, these towels are generously sized at 16″ wide and 30″ long. Three Cat Heart Designs White Towel with Cat Paw Heart Design. The pink embroidered design measures about 3.75″ wide and 3.75″

My Dearest Frodo, When I first saw your picture online at a rescue shelter in 2003, I knew you were part of our family. My heart recognized your soul and I understood you were the furry best friend I’d been seeking. I called that very second and inquired about you, the fuzzy grey tabby kitten

Looking for a way to celebrate our feline friends this month? Here are a few fun February cat activities. NOTE: Due to the coronavirus pandemic, many events have been cancelled. But here are some virtual events you can check out. All month: Spay/Neuter Awareness Month; Pet Dental Health Month; Cat Health Month Now’s your chance

Hi everyone, Have you or your feline friend ever wanted to appear in the news? Now is your chance! We are looking for content for our 2021 editorial line-up. And remember we cover everything cat related from events and poetry to a day in the life of your companion! No story is too small and

If you’ve followed The Conscious Cat for any length of time, you already know that we’re passionate about species-appropriate nutrition. Cats are obligate carnivores, and they need meat not only to survive, but to thrive. If you’re new to our site, or to feline nutrition, The Best Food for Your Cat is a great place

Living with cats certainly presents us with the need to adapt in order to keep our precious kitties’ ever-shifting moods happy and content. Think about it, surely there’s some feline-oriented task you do regularly that has required some tweaking in order to make the job as easy and muss-free as possible. Because as we know,

When you buy through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Jafari Jamison Underfoot is a cat like no other. He’s not only mastered the art of wearing a harness and leash, but takes walks daily with his owner that often turn into short sprints. Living in picturesque Vancouver, British Columbia, the

A grey tabby has become the latest pet in politics after being adopted by the Secretary of State for Justice and South Swindon MP Robert Buckland QC MP. The two-year-old moggy was adopted by the Lord Chancellor using Cats Protection’s Hands-Free Homing service, an initiative set up to enable the charity to continue to rehome cats

As this pandemic drags on, the big and small losses we’ve all experienced keep mounting, and even the most positive a among us can get tired of always looking for the silver lining. But that’s precisely why it’s more important than ever before that we don’t lose sight of life’s small pleasures. Here’s a short

As I’m writing this, I’m sitting on half a chair because one of my cats is comfy in the bigger portion of it. How could I dare cause her any discomfort? I’m a spoiler and the idea of doing anything to make my cats uncomfortable tears at my heart in awful ways. As a cat

Looking for something special for kitty? We’ve got the latest feline-friendly products to put on your shopping list. Ebo CatEntertain, chat, take photos, videos or livestream kitty with Ebo, a robot companion with an HD camera. It wheels, rolls and dances, or you can take control and play with kitty remotely using the Ebo app.

Hi everyone, Please find below a guest story by Francine about Hermie: I recently had to put Hermie down. She was 17 and my little love. Hermie was found in the dessert outside of Phoenix, AZ. She was nursing on a dead mama and her siblings were dead. She was taken to a friend who

This post contains affiliate links* A Cat on the Case is the third book in Clea Simon’s Witch Cats of Cambridge series, and like the other books in the series, the combination of mystery with a touch of the paranormal is irresistible. Protagonist Becca, a fledgling witch detective and employee at New Age shop Charm

Cat toys can be as alluring to cat lovers as they are to felines themselves. How many times have you been drawn in by sparkles and crinkles and squeakers, thinking your cat would love a certain toy? Yep, it happens more than we care to admit and the proof is left tossed on the floor

Think fast: When was the last time you enjoyed a date night? The pandemic has forced local restaurants to close or switch to takeout and us to hunker down for — checks notes — almost a year. It’s made it difficult to go anywhere, let alone indulge in a date night. It’s also given us a

“I’ve martialed armies and I’ve fought long warsWith courage, though foes strove to overwhelmSweet Catatonia, our rich peaceful realm,Where sunlight’s warm and gold and no rain pours. Although the rabid armies of the ratsAll swarmed our butteries and our pantries, wePrevailed and rousted all: now you can seeThat even field mice doff their feathered hats

This post contains affiliate links* Volana Kote (aka Jen Glick) is a Delaware based jewelry designer who creates gorgeous pieces incorporating naturally fallen cat whiskers or your cat’s ashes. Her creations range from necklaces to earrings to bracelets. She also offers keychains, cuff links and tie clips. Most pieces are available with a choice of

Felines have a reputation for being about as trainable as a herd of eels, but did you know cats actually respond very well to clicker training. As cats respond better to positive reinforcement than negative reaction and punishment, offering them food, a favorite toy, or special love pats can motivate them to do just as

Roses are red, violets are blue, you love your sweetheart but want to keep your cat safe, too. Whether it’s Valentine’s Day, Mother’s Day or any day, flowers can bring a smile to a person’s face. But some plants pose health and safety risks for cats. The good news: Roses are safe. The bad news:

This article first appeared on iCatCare: Nathalie Dowgray, iCatCare’s Head of ISFM, discusses Dr Sordo and colleagues’ recent paper on the prevalence of disease and age-related behavioural changes in cats: past and present. We couldn’t think of a better person to delve into this paper than Nathalie as she is in the final stages of

Guest post by Clea SimonThis post contains affiliate links* Stretch. Run around. Repeat. Conscious Cat readers will undoubtedly recognize a pattern here. You could call it a cat’s morning regimen. But as we enter the darkest days of winter – as well as the second year of a pandemic that has us more shut in

When a cat goes missing, you hold out hope your dear one will be home soon. But as days become weeks and eventually months, hope wanes while the heart wonders what has become of your lost cat. After years have passed, though it aches, you accept your cat now resides in your memory with their

Even if you have an indoor cat it’s likely their coat will change seasonally. “A cat’s undercoat will bulk up in winter months because fur growth is related more to the amount of sunlight available than ambient temperature,” says Dr. Nicole Starinsky, DVM, of the NorthStar VETS Emergency and Critical Care team. Cats naturally groom

Hello everyone, Welcome to another week of Tummy Rub Tuesday! The easiest way to enter is by sending them in via info@katzenworld.co.uk. Or just leave a comment with a link to the post / photo you’d like us to use on this blog post. Chance is a lucky cat who loves to have his fur

Cats are often considered untrainable – but nothing could be further from the truth. Not only are cats far more sociable than many people used to think, they can also be easily trained. One popular and effective way to do this is with clicker training. Clicker training is a positive reinforcement method based on behavioral

Muji the cat can’t express how happy she is to be home safe and sound after a harrowing misadventure during her move from the East Coast to the West. For 11 days, Muji was running scared in the LaGuardia Airport ceiling after getting separated from her mom at a TSA checkpoint. As they prepared to

One afternoon, several years ago my cat Captain Jack Sparrow was with me in my backyard. He strolled up to a glazed flower pot saucer filled with water and started drinking. The saucer was perched upon a concrete stepping stone at the corner of my patio. Birds took baths in the water, squirrels drank the

The UK’s Favourite Cat Cafe, Kitty Cafe have Announced a GIVEAWAY Competition so Fur-raising, all who hear about it are Climbing the Walls with Excitement!! What is the competition? Everyone at Kitty Cafe, are all incredibly thrilled and proud to announce the pre-launch of their newest feline focused product – the Cat Climber! To celebrate, they are calling all

I recently attended a Zoom even hosted by Mitra Rahbar, a spiritual teacher, healer and poet, titled Tools and Tips for 2021. In the seminar, she offered a number of extremely helpful suggestions on how to navigate through this already rather turbulent year. Mitra shared some of the tips from the seminar on Facebook. I’m

Who needs social media when you can have cat mail with purrsonalized service? Not Zack King and his girlfriend Olga or their friendly neighbors! Thanks to Zack and Olga’s cat Billy, they found an old-fashioned pen pal exchange without the help of anything electronic. All that was needed was some creativity, a few colorful pens,